INDIAN GEOGRAPHY

Detailed explanation-1: -Madras Atomic Power Station (MAPS) located at Kalpakkam about 80 kilometres (50 mi) south of Chennai, India, is a comprehensive nuclear power production, fuel reprocessing, and waste treatment facility that includes plutonium fuel fabrication for fast breeder reactors (FBRs).

Detailed explanation-2: -Kalpakkam is a township in Tamil Nadu, India, situated on the Coromandel Coast 70 kilometres south of Chennai. A conglomerate of two villages (Puduppattinam and Sadurangappatinam) and a DAE township, it is about 55 kilometres (34 mi) from Thiruvanmiyur and 85 kilometres (53 mi) from Pondicherry.

Detailed explanation-3: -Kalpakkam is located on the east coast about 70 km south of Chennai in Tamil Nadu State. The Madras Atomic Power Station (MAPS) having two units of 220 MW was established in 1983-85 by Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL).

Detailed explanation-4: -Kalpakkam nuclear power plant is located on the Coromandel coast in 70 km south of Chennai in Tamil Nadu.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Kalpakkam Atomic Power Station is said to be the house of two nuclear reactors operating at 220 MW power along with a super-fast breeder reactor having a power generation capacity of 500 MWe.